Marcus F. Cummings

Clinton County Courthouse, Plattsburgh, New York

Marcus Fayette Cummings (March 11, 1836^[1]–1905) was an American architect active in the Capital District region of the U.S. state of New York. Born in Utica,^[1] he later established his practice in the city of Troy, where many of his buildings are located in the Central Troy Historic District and listed on the National Register of Historic Places. In 1891 he made his son, Frederick, a partner in the office,^[2] and promptly retired to Vineyard Haven, Massachusetts, on Martha's Vineyard.^[3] He maintained only a financial interest in the office of M. F. Cummings & Son, which would last into the 1930s.

Buildings

• Verbeck House – Ballston Spa, New York
• Glens Falls Insurance Company Building – Glens Falls, New York
• Rockwell House Hotel – Glens Falls
• North Adams Public Library – North Adams, Massachusetts (built 1865-67 as a mansion for Sanford Blackinton^[4])
• Johnson Manufacturing Company – North Adams (1872)
• Clinton County Courthouse – Plattsburgh, New York
• Washington County Courthouse – Salem, New York
• Stillwater United Church – Stillwater, New York
• National State Bank Building – Troy, New York
• Ilium Building – Troy
• Rensselaer County Courthouse – Troy
• Mt. Ida Presbyterian Church – Troy
• School 1 Building – Troy

Gallery

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  Public Library, North Adams, Massachusetts

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  Ilium Building, Troy, New York

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  National State Bank Building, Troy

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  School 1, Troy

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  Stillwater United Church, Stillwater, New York

References

Notes

1. U.S. Passport application of M.F. Cummings, 1874 on ancestry.com
2. "Mark F. Cummings & Son". The Industrial Advantages of Troy, NY. 1895.
3. "Obituary: Marcus F. Cummings". Architects' and Builders' Magazine Oct. 1905: 44.
4. "North Adams Public Library: Our History"

External links

• Media related to Marcus Fayette Cummings at Wikimedia Commons